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28 thoughts on “KQ DIXIE FM Synthesizer For iOS”

I’m really glad that there so many synth developers bringing great new instruments and sonic tools to us every day. What I don’t understand is why any developer (software and/or hardware) would choose to name their product Dixie. Here in the US, Dixie is the CSA which fought a bloody war to uphold the evil institution of slavery. I know that Intellijel also chose to name a product Dixie. I think this is a very bad choice. I for one could never purchase a product called Dixie. No matter how great of a synth, oscillator, etc., it might be.

Yeah, I don’t like the name either. And practically no one thinks of cups. Any name that returns a picture of the Stars and Bars as the first result in a Google search is probably the wrong one for a product.

I didn’t associate the name like that until YOU brought it up. Thanks a lot. It must be a sad way to live, associating race with everything you come across. Some so us don’t and get tired of you people that do. Just either play the synth or don’t.

TVF says he’d buy it if it was called Auschwitz, and implies Marc is overly sensitive. You say “get over it”.

With your keen sense of what “most people” would think (i.e., most people… who are you), you won’t need to go google “Dixie”. Yes, cups are down there in the list, but there are also some prominent examples of people removing “Dixie” from signs, songs, etc. But you already knew that.

Marc is absolutely right. There were other name choices to get DX into the name without it being so negatively loaded.

What’s the matter with it being ‘almost compatible’?? Shouldn’t it just work as expected? DX7 function is not exactly rocket science. Just to make life more interesting, or a case of losing interest on the finishing line? I will still buy it. But get this bug fixed, very please!

Yes, in German there is a brand of chemical toilet cabins made from blue plastics you very often find at festivals or construction sites, by the same name. I immediately associated a certain smell.. but I will get over it. Also U.S. < world.

I have the misfortune of my alma matter being named ‘Dixie’. The university is not even located in the south and the state sided with the North in the civil war.

That being said, the college board had a vote to change the name a couple of years ago and I regret that it didn’t pass. It’s “problematic”.

However, The United State’s issues are not a direct semantical correlation to the world. Look at all the Nazis we enjoy blasting in our video games and movies, but in Germany, the symbology is illegal.

The question of what correctness is has gone to a new level in the last decade. Its going to be a catching up or calming down period before more people come together and normalize the dialogue.

In the meantime, I’m enjoying all the FM synths that are coming out these days! I have a couple of the hardware ones too: Yamaha TX81z and Korg DS-8. Fortunately their names are ambiguous enough to not offend. 😉